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...Proponents of a ban are not impressed by fears of illegal trade of other products, saying such concerns could be voiced over any government ban. "The legal sale of mushrooms was an awkward situation to start with, and this bill puts that right, parliamentarian Fred Teeven of the right-wing liberal VVD says. But he too admits that upholding prohibition will be hard, and the municipality of Amsterdam has expressed concern that enforcing it will put a heavy burden on the police...
...polls on Sunday, haunted by a violent and contested past and anxious over an increasingly violent present. The legacy of the country's 36-year-civil war is never far from contemporary politics, and the front-runner in the presidential runoff - retired General Perez Molina, whose right-wing Patriotic Party has a very slight lead over left-leaning businessman Alvaro Colom in some opinion polls - has been the subject of allegations in a new book on the 1998 assassination of Guatemalan human rights crusader Bishop Juan Gerardi. Gerardi was bludgeoned to death in the parish house of his Guatemala City...
...news - the attack targeted a residential complex where members of the LTTE were meeting - makes the possibility of a negotiated political end to the country's brutal civil war much less likely. Tamilselvan was the head of the LTTE's political wing and the international face of the group. He had been involved in negotiations with the previous Sri Lankan government along with the LTTE's then chief negotiator Anton Balasingham. When Balasingham fell ill and later died, Tamilselvan took over as head of the LTTE team and met with representatives of the current government in Geneva last year...
...Suresh Premachandran, an MP from the Tamil National Alliance, which is considered a proxy of the LTTE, told TIME the death of Tamilselvan will be a blow for the negotiation process. "It shows the Government is for a military solution. Tamilselvan was the leader of the political wing and involved in all rounds of negotiations, so when the Government targets him it is clear they do not want a political solution," Premachandran said...
...Most Indians agree that if their country is to continue to grow, closing the massive gap between rich and poor is imperative. The calculation is not just political - the nuclear agreement stalled because the left-wing parties that support the government do not want to deal with the U.S. - but brutally practical, too. Singh has said India's greatest threat is that its low-level insurgencies will turn more deadly. India will be a true success when those in the quiet columns of dignified marchers know that its prosperity extends to them...